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openrct2 cannot find data-path

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From: Jelle Licht <wordempire <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: openrct2 cannot find data-path
Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2017 23:38:35 +0200

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The recently committed (and awesome) openrct2 built correctly,
but cannot currently find the needed language and shader files
for the game and therefore crashes. To make it work, I currently
have to invoke it via a command like
`--openrct-data-path=/gnu/store/<hash>-openrct2-0.1.1/share/openrct2/',
which imho is not optimal.

I dove into the source of openrct, and it seems there are still
some vestiges of the cmake flag we want, namely
ORCT2_RESOURCE_DIR. Sadly, support for configuring this variable
seems to have been removed about 4 months ago.

I opened an issue upstream regarding this[1], but maybe there is
an easy workaround we can use until a fix is hopefully released.
I was thinking of either a phase which calls `wrap-program', or
adding the required flag back via a short snippet.

- Jelle


[1]: https://github.com/OpenRCT2/OpenRCT2/issues/6473


p.s. Besides these rather small issues, I can confirm that OpenRCT2
works.

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Message #8 received at 28840 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Jelle Licht <wordempire <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 28840 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#28840: openrct2 cannot find data-path
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 18:01:10 +0200

Hi Jelle,

Jelle Licht <wordempire <at> gmail.com> skribis:

> The recently committed (and awesome) openrct2 built correctly,
> but cannot currently find the needed language and shader files
> for the game and therefore crashes. To make it work, I currently
> have to invoke it via a command like
> `--openrct-data-path=/gnu/store/<hash>-openrct2-0.1.1/share/openrct2/',
> which imho is not optimal.
>
> I dove into the source of openrct, and it seems there are still
> some vestiges of the cmake flag we want, namely
> ORCT2_RESOURCE_DIR. Sadly, support for configuring this variable
> seems to have been removed about 4 months ago.
>
> I opened an issue upstream regarding this[1], but maybe there is
> an easy workaround we can use until a fix is hopefully released.
> I was thinking of either a phase which calls `wrap-program', or
> adding the required flag back via a short snippet.

Are you talking about the game assets, or is it something different?

(Did you see the discussion at
<https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=28794#8>?)

Cheers,
Ludo’.

Message #11 received at 28840 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jelle Licht <jlicht <at> fsfe.org>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 28840 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#28840: openrct2 cannot find data-path
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 18:37:07 +0200

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Hi Ludo,

No, I am talking about resources such as shaders and
language packs, which seem to be included in openrct2 itself.
IOW, even *with* the data files from the proprietary rct2, our current
openrct2
does not run without the command line flags I added to my first posting :-).

Cheers,
Jelle

2017-10-20 18:01 GMT+02:00 Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>:

> Hi Jelle,
>
> Jelle Licht <wordempire <at> gmail.com> skribis:
>
> > The recently committed (and awesome) openrct2 built correctly,
> > but cannot currently find the needed language and shader files
> > for the game and therefore crashes. To make it work, I currently
> > have to invoke it via a command like
> > `--openrct-data-path=/gnu/store/<hash>-openrct2-0.1.1/share/openrct2/',
> > which imho is not optimal.
> >
> > I dove into the source of openrct, and it seems there are still
> > some vestiges of the cmake flag we want, namely
> > ORCT2_RESOURCE_DIR. Sadly, support for configuring this variable
> > seems to have been removed about 4 months ago.
> >
> > I opened an issue upstream regarding this[1], but maybe there is
> > an easy workaround we can use until a fix is hopefully released.
> > I was thinking of either a phase which calls `wrap-program', or
> > adding the required flag back via a short snippet.
>
> Are you talking about the game assets, or is it something different?
>
> (Did you see the discussion at
> <https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=28794#8>?)
>
> Cheers,
> Ludo’.
>

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Message #14 received at 28840 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Jelle Licht <jlicht <at> fsfe.org>, Rutger Helling <rhelling <at> mykolab.com>
Cc: 28840 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#28840: openrct2 cannot find data-path
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 22:21:17 +0200

Hello,

Jelle Licht <jlicht <at> fsfe.org> skribis:

> No, I am talking about resources such as shaders and
> language packs, which seem to be included in openrct2 itself.
> IOW, even *with* the data files from the proprietary rct2, our current
> openrct2
> does not run without the command line flags I added to my first posting :-).

Oh, I see.  Rutger, does that ring a bell?

  https://bugs.gnu.org/28840

Thanks,
Ludo’.

Message #17 received at 28840 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Rutger Helling <rhelling <at> mykolab.com>
To: ludo <at> gnu.org
Cc: 28840 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Jelle Licht <jlicht <at> fsfe.org>
Subject: Re: bug#28840: openrct2 cannot find data-path
Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2017 10:44:33 +0200

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Hi Ludo and Jelle, 

I've attached a patch that fixed the issue for me by changing some
references from /usr/share to /gnu/store/<hash>-openrct2-0.1.1/share.
I can now run openrct2 without the additional parameter. 

On 2017-10-20 22:21, ludo <at> gnu.org wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Jelle Licht <jlicht <at> fsfe.org> skribis:
> 
>> No, I am talking about resources such as shaders and
>> language packs, which seem to be included in openrct2 itself.
>> IOW, even *with* the data files from the proprietary rct2, our current
>> openrct2
>> does not run without the command line flags I added to my first posting :-).
> 
> Oh, I see.  Rutger, does that ring a bell?
> 
> https://bugs.gnu.org/28840
> 
> Thanks,
> Ludo'.

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Message #20 received at 28840 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jelle Licht <jlicht <at> fsfe.org>
To: Rutger Helling <rhelling <at> mykolab.com>
Cc: 28840 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, ludo <at> gnu.org, Jelle Licht <jlicht <at> fsfe.org>
Subject: Re: bug#28840: openrct2 cannot find data-path
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 14:18:43 +0200

Rutger Helling <rhelling <at> mykolab.com> writes:

> Hi Ludo and Jelle,
>
> I've attached a patch that fixed the issue for me by changing some
> references from /usr/share to /gnu/store/<hash>-openrct2-0.1.1/share.
> I can now run openrct2 without the additional parameter.

I can confirm that Rutger's patch works as intented.

Message #23 received at 28840 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Jelle Licht <jlicht <at> fsfe.org>
Cc: 28840 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Rutger Helling <rhelling <at> mykolab.com>
Subject: Re: bug#28840: openrct2 cannot find data-path
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 10:27:23 -0700

Hello,

Jelle Licht <jlicht <at> fsfe.org> skribis:

> Rutger Helling <rhelling <at> mykolab.com> writes:
>
>> Hi Ludo and Jelle,
>>
>> I've attached a patch that fixed the issue for me by changing some
>> references from /usr/share to /gnu/store/<hash>-openrct2-0.1.1/share.
>> I can now run openrct2 without the additional parameter.
>
> I can confirm that Rutger's patch works as intented.

Awesome.  Could you push it?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

Message #28 received at 28840-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Jelle Licht <jlicht <at> fsfe.org>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Jelle Licht <jlicht <at> fsfe.org>, Rutger Helling <rhelling <at> mykolab.com>,
 28840-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#28840: openrct2 cannot find data-path
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2017 20:10:25 +0200

Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Jelle Licht <jlicht <at> fsfe.org> skribis:
>
>> Rutger Helling <rhelling <at> mykolab.com> writes:
>>
>>> Hi Ludo and Jelle,
>>>
>>> I've attached a patch that fixed the issue for me by changing some
>>> references from /usr/share to /gnu/store/<hash>-openrct2-0.1.1/share.
>>> I can now run openrct2 without the additional parameter.
>>
>> I can confirm that Rutger's patch works as intented.
>
> Awesome.  Could you push it?

Pushed as 2e205c619334 on master.

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